Our Story
After years of working in a traditional outpatient physical therapy practice under a corporate entity, we learned all the ways this broken model fails the modern patient. Focus is placed on revenue generation, volume of visits over quality of care, and speed of delivery over desired patient outcomes.
Therapists are asked to see more patients than a clinical day should feasibly absorb, and patients are left feeling those ramifications. They get 10 minutes with the clinician before being passed along to an unknowing PT tech, who is trying their best to provide care they aren’t qualified to deliver.
The reason most clinicians begin their pursuit of physical therapy is to help patients—to provide assistance to eliminate pain, restore function, and return them to the activities that bring them joy. Somewhere between the intent of rehab and the bottom line of medicine as a business, however, the waters have been muddied. The expectation of physical therapy has become a waste of time, an obligation required by a physician prior to the next step in intervention.
We knew it could be better.
We knew it could be a vital resource for people trying to mitigate pain and dysfunction, avoid and/or recover from surgery, bypass fears of living in chronic pain, and return to focusing on life versus the elements of the human condition that allow roadblocks to become life-altering limitations.
Providing patients with one-on-one care in an environment that allows true exchange and in-the-moment problem-solving. Care that focuses on individual diagnostic workup, specific and monitored interventions, and progression that allows for recovery.
True, supported recovery.
The Forem vows to embody exactly that.
It’s a practice where clinicians and patients have one-on-one, full-hour sessions. No distractions, no feelings of being an unknowing participant on a factory line. Care is provided exclusively by the clinician in a collaborative way—not only with the patient but with whomever else is vested in the patient’s recovery (MDs, DPMs, dentists, psychologists, dieticians, personal trainers, friends, and family).
An opportunity to develop rapport, trust, and unified goals of rehabilitation. Time and health-care dollars are rewardingly spent, with the intention of focused outcomes desired by both the patients and physical therapists who are trying to restore the good reputation of successful preventative- and recovery-based care.
